Clifton Katz from the South Dakota Attorney General's Office, told the more two-dozen people in the audience that Weible hadn't set forth an issue to be answered by the board.
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South Dakota laws setting deadlines for petitions violate free speech guarantees of the U.S. Constitution. That’s according to an opinion released Friday, Feb. 17, by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The state is appealing a U.S. District Court decision that a state law requiring initiated measure petitions to be delivered to the Secretary of State a full year before the general election violates petitioners’ free speech.